An anonymous person sends the link:
Morrissey Announces Short 2009 Tour - Xfm
Mozza will support his new album, ‘Years Of Refusal’, with a brief tour of the UK next year, playing one date in London, and two in Manchester, the birthplace of his former band The Smiths.
Morrissey's new album will be released on February 23, led by ther first single, 'I'm Throwing My Arms Around Paris'.
Tickets for the tour go on sale tomorrow (December 5) at 10am, and will be available via the Xfm Ticket Shop
right here.
Morrissey’s UK dates –
Royal Albert Hall, London (May 11)
Apollo, Manchester (22/23)
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James also writes:
Morrissey UK shows May 2009
Morrissey will perform at London's Royal Albert Hall on Monday 11th May
and two homecoming shows at the Manchester Apollo on Friday 22nd and
Saturday 23rd May, with special guest, Doll & The Kicks.
Morrissey's new studio album, "Years of Refusal", will be released on
16th February 2009 on Polydor preceded by the single "I'm Throwing My
Arms Around Paris" one week prior.
Tickets are on sale Friday 5th December @ 10am
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Kewpie also sends the link (via
Morrissey reddit), originally posted by Burnage and Maurice_E in the forums (
original thread):
Celebration date for Morrissey - Manchester Evening News
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crashandieuk also writes:
I Found this on
Morrisseys Myspace website:
Morrissey UK shows May 2009
SJM Concerts are proud to announce three Morrissey UK shows for 2009.
Morrissey will perform at London's Royal Albert Hall on Monday 11th May and two homecoming shows at the Manchester Apollo on Friday 22nd and Saturday 23rd May, with special guest, Doll & The Kicks.
Tickets are on sale Friday 5th December @ 10am
May
Monday 11th - London Royal Albert Hall (0207 589 8212)
Friday 22nd - Manchester Apollo (0844 477 7677)
Saturday 23rd - Manchester Apollo (0844 477 7677)
Tickets are £42.50 / £37.50 / £30 London and £32.50 Manchester
single will be supported by two new songs... (Score:0)
Morrissey’s new studio album “Years of Refusal” will be released on 16th February 2009 on Decca/Polydor, preceded by the single “I’m Throwing My Arms Around Paris” one week prior. The single will be supported by two new songs “Because Of My Poor Education” and “Shame Is The Name”, the latter featuring additional vocals by Chrissie Hynde.
After an incredible 2008, Morrissey has announced his first UK shows for 2009.
Morrissey will perform at London’s Royal Albert Hall on Monday 11th May and two homecoming shows at Manchester Apollo on Friday 22nd and Saturday 23rd May. Friday’s Manchester show is also a cause for dual celebration as Morrissey celebrates his 50th Birthday.
11th May to 22nd May (Score:0)
Anyway 50th birthday at Manchester Apollo??? Not too confident of selling uot the MEN Arena I suppose. credit crunch reasons I guess.
Looking forward to it
Wow... (Score:1)
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Going! (Score:1)
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Ticket prices.... (Score:0)
He`s bound to be playing other dates, it`s pretty much what he does...!
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Mike Joyce aka Mike Gross is disgusting (Score:0)
This is very very good news and I hope that that beautiful little baby that Morrissey is holding in this picture attends my baby’s birthday as well. The baby looks so distracted but so happy at the same time, because my baby is holding him.
The end.
By the way I hope that he makes that same expression on his adorable face like he did in the DVD at the end of There is a Light…
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...but will he be at Coachella? (Score:0)
More Dates? Yes? (Score:0)
Looking at those prices..... (Score:0)
GREAT NEWS - what about pre sale info? (Score:1)
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Sold in in Minutes? (Score:1)
I'll be on the phone and internet from 9.57!
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How the hell...? (Score:0)
Dilema!! (Score:0)
Has anybody got any news on the Aus/NZ Tour?
Sheridan
Xfm closed down? (Score:1)
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all sold out (Score:0)
Sold Out!! (Score:1)
That's what I get for taking a light snooze!
Can't imagine the fetching prices on eBay now. This is Mozza's 50th.
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ffs!!! (Score:0)
Confusing sale... (Score:1)
Oh, the conjecture!
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i think its sold out (Score:0)
Tickets (Score:0)
I think I speak... (Score:1)
How the hell should anyone been able to get their hands on a ticket when they go so quickly?
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Fri 22nd May and sat 23rd may (Score:0)
Bluebirds
Happy birthday dear Steven
Call Albert.... (Score:1)
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Got tickets (Score:0)
i did call albert.. (Score:0)
i am so happyyyyyyyy
Sold out in 30 seconds (Score:0)
So angry.... (Score:1)
But suddenly there are hundreds available on ebay being sold by total bastards who want £99 for a single ticket, with a face value of £32.50.
I feel like crying. Why are people such complete and utter %^*&s?
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Stop touts petition (Score:0)
PLEASE SIGN, tell your friends etc etc etc
The stories on the forum beggar belief...
Bluebirds
Tickets (Score:1)
I despare My thoughts are action needs to be takn my plan is to buy all tickets for the gigs on ebay to teach these robbers, the venues and ticket agents need to do more.
Steve
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Why the Ebay baiting? (Score:1)
For me the C*nts in all of this are touts, who prior to ebay, existed and would still exist if ebay did not sell tickets. Unscrupulous people always find ways to exploit others.
I got all the tickets I wanted this time around but have previously missed out and made a choice to pay inflated prices rather than miss a particular Morrissey gig. I get pissed off at the thought of having to do it - but it's a choice I make and live with.
There will be many fans on this site, I'm sure, who have more tickets than they need. They should pass them on at face value. I did this with two of my tickets to a true fan, who missed out on the 23rd and he almost exploded when he found out I had some and they were his. C'mon, the best way to deal with touts is: a) send Morrissey a petition from this site letting him know that HE has a responsibility in all of this and b)support each other and share the tickets we as fans have.
As for the touts - well, shooting is too good for them!!!!
I hope that all of you who really want to be there - get there. Good Luck!
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presale!!?? (Score:0)
Tickets (Score:1)
Do something about it !!!! Your fans deserve better!!
My mate queued up from 7-30 this morning and was told at 10-05 it was sold out.(Froze his ass off!!!)
I was on Ticketmaster, Gigs and Tours and at 10-06 all sold out.
BIG BAG OF FESTIVE BOLLOCKS!!!
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Sold out in 30 seconds (Score:1)
Morrissey concert sells out..and then there is absolutley no way, at any price you can get a ticket,
Given the two choices, I think id like the option to buy on ebay so that I can guarantee myself tickets, albeit at a grossly inflated price.
Perhaps they should have a little Mozza test you have to pass before you are allowed to buy them!!
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It is not all down to touts (Score:1)
Collectively and not apparent, to some, we are working against the touts, because we, the genuine fans are making more effort and becoming cleverer. The touts are probably sitting there now saying "bastard Morrissey fans, they are not playing the game any more. We are supposed to buy the tickets and rip them off."
Evidence of this can be found on EBay. There are still tickets being sold, but less than in the past. These days it is individuals and maybe even Morrissey fans who are snapping up a couple and selling them, whereas touts used to have bundles. I got tickets for the MEN in 2004, the first to buy them actually at 9.30am that Saturday morning. But the stories on this site afterwards about people, some of them kids, queuing up at the MEN and then walking around the corner and handing them to touts never made me smile.
One thing I need to do now is warn everybody about a particular ticket seller on EBay. He has several companies, one of them, coincidentally being, 'Royallberthalltickets'. This guy is ripping people off left, right and centre and has just ripped us off for an AC/DC ticket, which we had paid him £181 for.
http://blogs.mirror.co.uk/investigations/2008/08/ticket-tout-michael-rangos-cle.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Getmetickets.net
http://www.guardian.co.uk/money/2008/mar/29/
So, even if you are willing to pay well over the odds for a ticket, you may as well be buying a ticket on the tour bus for your money, as you are never going to see it. I would forget about Ebay. Sellers can change company names too easily. The ticket you may be about to buy could be this parasite's latest con job.
Anyway, on a positive note, I did get a couple of standing tickets for Manchester. I also hope everybody else can get tickets. If anyone has any spare tickets, I know this is unlikely, why not come on to here and offer it for face value?
Here is a good poll for the site as well.
Which Morrissey show did you get a ticket for?
List the three. To enter, you must be a registered member of the site. Just a quick way to try and judge how many of us actually did get tickets. If everyone is honest about it and only answers if they did get one, it could be interesting.
Good Luck
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Just Great (Score:1)
This must stop real fans who have supported Morrissey over many year deserve more
This is not moaning about missing out or the value and cost of seeing Morrissey Its just wrong
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I have 2 tickets. (Score:1)
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Royal Albert Hall (Score:1)
I did though get through to see tickets on the phone an got 2 seating tickets for Royal Albert Hall, so all is not bad!
BUT TOUTS I GOD DAMN HATE U!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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New Date Announced (Score:1)
Now that is gonna be one hell of a gig!
Best get in their quick!
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Allocations (Score:0)
I suppose what I am writing is ok when I have secured my place, however the venues hold 5-600 people. I run hotels and we sell our rooms through the internet in the same way the concert promoters sell tickets for gigs. If we put all our rooms available on all sites at peak times we would sell far too many rooms and have a massive issue on our hands. We therefore give a sensible allocation to each site and hold a few back in case of errors to be released nearer the time. This is exactly the case for concerts. Do you honestly think that the thousands of people needing tickets wouldn't all be logging on from 9.30 onwards hitting refresh every 2 seconds?
Remember that a percentage will be kept back for sponsors, PR companies and the band themselves. Yes some tickets are on Ebay, I thought about going for 4 but decided not to be greedy - how many fans did take four so they could sell 2 on, make a profit and see Morrissey for free? Alot of the tickets advertised on Ebay won't neccesarily materialise either as per previous threads.
Be patient as there will be more coming on and you will almost guarantee that more dates will be added - Take That, Oasis etc have all done so recently.
As I said, its easy to look at it this way when you have tickets but I knew that I could so easily have missed out as well.
i wrote it a year ago (Score:1)
was a sorta Hyde park event
no rickets, just a day of celebration with other
bands he likes, and who would like to play in
honour of Brittish Last Living Legend
whoever get tickets for that night, I envy you
it'll be a totally 10 minutes chaos after the ticket go on sale, and it'll be sold out, before
you could go to the toilet while waiting for connecting ticketbastards who do the sale
Viva Morrissey
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I personally can't wait to see... (Score:0)
Alternatively, save your money and go and see The Smyths instead. You get all the good songs and none of Mozzer's tiresome whining.
gigsandsandtours (Score:1)
the rest sold out, or the seats are moved for
standing places, cause it says not 'sold out'but
'not available for this concert'
that London , Royal albert
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Message from a tout (Score:0)
Tickets for both nights (Score:0)
Seetickets - RAH (Score:0)
please..... (Score:0)
if anybody has a spare ticket, reply to this and let me know. i really need one
A Question (Score:1)
The question is, will the gig cheer me up, or will the reminder of my lost youth depress me?
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tickets exchange (Score:1)
My email: [email protected]
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See tickets.... (Score:0)
I rang again in the afternoon and the girl told me all the tickets were pretty much SOLD OUT by 10 minutes past. She also said that they will probably not get any more.....
Ridiculous money going on eBay: £299 for a pair of standing tickets. Silly.
Royal Albert Hall Tickets (Score:0)